Tiki Christmas Music

Been digging Blue Hawaiian's "Christmas on the Big Island" and Don Tiki's "Hot Lava Holiday Songs." Anything else I should be looking at with the holiday theme, slinky lounge beat and Gretschy twang?

Swear to gosh, I'm gonna make a Christmas album one year that sounds like Duane Eddy jamming with Santo Farina and Martin Denny's rhythm section!

dig the new emmett hadleys xmas cd(a.k.a. martini kings).... if you dare! ha!
available at martinikings.com

Christmas Cocktails Part Two
http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Lounge-Christmas-Cocktails-Part-Two/dp/B000002TLS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1385662100&sr=1-1&keywords=christmas+cocktails+part+2

Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas
http://www.amazon.com/Hawaiian-Slack-Christmas-Various-artists/dp/B0068QTSRQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1385661969&sr=1-1&keywords=hawaiian+slack+key+christmas

With a Christmas Vibe
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Vibe-Arthur-Lyman/dp/B001RY84IS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385661640&sr=8-1&keywords=with+a+christmas+vibe

Christmas on Big Island
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Big-Island-Blue-Hawaiians/dp/B000003BL4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1385660595&sr=1-1&keywords=the+blue+hawaiians

Christmas in Hawaii
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Hawaii-Jerry-Byrd/dp/B001C3J2ZS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1385660471&sr=8-2&keywords=christmas+in+hawaii

Santa’s Gone Hawaiian!
http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Hawaiian-Treasures-Vol-Santas/dp/B000005U0P/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1385664532&sr=1-1&keywords=santa%27s+gone+hawaiian

On 2013-12-03 09:00, Tele295 wrote:
Been digging Blue Hawaiian's "Christmas on the Big Island" and Don Tiki's "Hot Lava Holiday Songs." Anything else I should be looking at with the holiday theme, slinky lounge beat and Gretschy twang?

Swear to gosh, I'm gonna make a Christmas album one year that sounds like Duane Eddy jamming with Santo Farina and Martin Denny's rhythm section!

Gretsh twang did you say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y9zQ_40oxU

and see my mostly tongue- in- cheek review of this excellent album: all joking aside, King Kukulele fucking kicks ASS!

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=34832&forum=11&15

Tiki Joe's Ocean: http://tikijoesocean.com/#6
Martini Kings "Kings of Jing a Ling": http://www.martinikings.com/buy-martini-kings-cds/ (scroll down the page)

Here some pearls of my holiday-collection.
They range from orchestral to minimalistic and from savage to psychedelic.

Andre Kostelanetz - Wonderland Of Christmas
Brian Blume - Let It Snow
Eddie Duensdter - Christmas Candy
Esquivel - Merry X-Mas From The Space-Age Bachelor Pad
George Shearing - Christmas
Hermann Apple - Stereo Percussions De Noel
Jackie Gleason - Merry Christmas
Jim Baker - A Steel Guitar Christmas
John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas
The Mermen - Do You Hear What I Hear A Very Mermen Christmas
The Ventures - The Christmas Album
The Waikikis - Merry Christmas In Hawaii

Enjoy your ADVENTure

I'll throw our hat in the ring: we recorded Tchaikovsky's Arab Dance from the Nutcracker on our 2011 release, Third River Rangoon

http://orchestrotica.com/album2

...complete with...oud solo (to fix the song since there is basically nothing arab about Pyotr T's version!)

best,
Mr. HO

We recorded White Christmas with my band, Ìxtahuele, last year... You can check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MWii_h94xw

Aloha!

For those who may enjoy it, we've added some vintage Hawaiian Christmas selections from the LP collection into the mix on "Hawaiian Hi-Fi" on Live365.com. Holiday tunes from Don Ho, The Surfers, Arthur Lyman, some local lounge acts and various steel guitar groups, in addition to a few Japanese, Filipino & Chamorro (Guam Island) Christmas ditties for that real vintage "island holiday feeling."
I'm also excited to include a few selections from this VERY rare LP recording of a long-forgotten pseudo-Hawaiian instrument..the Ukelin. They used to be sold primarily door-to-door is the early part of the last century as an "easy to learn at home" combination Hawaiian guitar, ukulele, violin. (According to all reports, it wasn't really all that easy to learn, and had a fairly short lived run...but a few of the old instruments were still out there.)

And for the truly off-beat...how about a selection from a Hawaiian Christmas record recorded in Sweden??

Mele Kalikimaka from "Hawaiian Hi-Fi!"
http://www.live365.com/stations/kaiwaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Q0_lSq4Jc

had to look the Ukelin up.......lots of controversy surrounding this instrument...

Happy Holidays with the Exotic Sounds of Ìxtahuele

that rendition of 'white christmas' is crazy good. perfect holiday moon muzik if you ask me

On 2013-12-11 13:43, socksoff wrote:

Happy Holidays with the Exotic Sounds of Ìxtahuele

that rendition of 'white christmas' is crazy good. perfect holiday moon muzik if you ask me

There is also a video recorded for "When you wish upon a star" that can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPKj51g-Jw
In Sweden, this tune is very associated with Christmas. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Holidays! :)

Here's my Ukulele Christmas EP link:

http://www.carlayotte.com/TheGraniteTiki'sUkuleleChristmas.htm

[ Edited by: The Granite Tiki 2013-12-12 07:57 ]

Not what Tele295 was originally after, but I've been enjoying this one:

Hawaiian Christmas - Noelani and The Leo Nahenahe Singers
Christmas classics & originals in Hawaiian & English, recorded in 1965. There are clips/CDs on Amazon

And, for a Christmasy Surf break:
Have Yourself A 'Vara' Merry Christmas! - The Vara-tones

This band the Hiram Olsen Trio played outside of our hotel in Hawaii when we
were they many years ago. 15?
But they were selling a cd of Christmas music and it is very good.
Don't know how you would get one now, it was called Mele Kalikimaka.
Good luck.

Not tiki but Die Rotten Rosen Awesome xmas cd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGPMqks6cKg&list=PLlQiQoRfeE5U17UVqkfFrI4dL_AFa1XZE

SNL's season's greetings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjsyIhKWr9s

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2013-12-18 19:45 ]

On 2013-12-11 15:24, always on the beach wrote:

There is also a video recorded for "When you wish upon a star" that can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPKj51g-Jw
In Sweden, this tune is very associated with Christmas. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Holidays! :)

thank you very much agnet aotb. as usual, this is quality material. next time i find myself your way, i'll have to tell you about this amazing new brotherhood we have here. i think you should be part of the membership